Introduction
Product Information Management is an oracle product family.Oracle had launched PLM (Product Life Management) in 11, which has been upgraded as PIM with few enhanced features like document management etc in release R12.
1- Product Information Management is another product family of Oracle Application to store iproduct (items) details
2- Its similar to Item Master of SCM family with some additional enhancements.
3- It’s self service application
5- This is EGO_TOP
Basic terminology for product information management -
Item catalog Category - ICC
- To segregate items having similar characteristic,we classify those into categories. ICC is a name to different categories created under Item catalog to grouped similar items.
- Item catalog categories provide a logical way to classify items that have similar characteristics in Item Catalog
- It is suggested that every Item should be created under an ICC
Attribute Group - AG
- Oracle provides operational attributes to define items.
- Customer may need some more information about items and that can be achieved using Attribute group.
- Create custom attribute groups and attributes under this group to support custom need.
- Assign this AG to your ICC
- Associate this AG to any custom Page
Custom Page
- PIM Supports user defined AG and to display these UDAs on UI, It provides functionality to create custom Pages.
- Pages can be created only under any ICC
- Associate your UDAs to custom Pages
Functions
- To avoid manual entry and use data with specific pattern, functions are available in PIM
- Customer can create own functions and return value based on his logic.
- PIM supports below fields to be used as function generated:
1) Item Number
2) Item Description
3) Actions
Product Information Management is an oracle product family.Oracle had launched PLM (Product Life Management) in 11, which has been upgraded as PIM with few enhanced features like document management etc in release R12.
1- Product Information Management is another product family of Oracle Application to store iproduct (items) details
2- Its similar to Item Master of SCM family with some additional enhancements.
3- It’s self service application
5- This is EGO_TOP
Item catalog Category - ICC
- To segregate items having similar characteristic,we classify those into categories. ICC is a name to different categories created under Item catalog to grouped similar items.
- Item catalog categories provide a logical way to classify items that have similar characteristics in Item Catalog
- It is suggested that every Item should be created under an ICC
Attribute Group - AG
- Oracle provides operational attributes to define items.
- Customer may need some more information about items and that can be achieved using Attribute group.
- Create custom attribute groups and attributes under this group to support custom need.
- Assign this AG to your ICC
- Associate this AG to any custom Page
Custom Page
- PIM Supports user defined AG and to display these UDAs on UI, It provides functionality to create custom Pages.
- Pages can be created only under any ICC
- Associate your UDAs to custom Pages
Functions
- To avoid manual entry and use data with specific pattern, functions are available in PIM
- Customer can create own functions and return value based on his logic.
- PIM supports below fields to be used as function generated:
1) Item Number
2) Item Description
3) Actions
